[lojban] Re: jbovlaste example.

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:11:55PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:

> > "kunti", or "kutyjbi" for "near-vacuum".
> 
> kunti is exactly what the original poster was arguing against;
> vacuum is *not* empty.

I would have said he was arguing that "vacuum" _does_ mean "empty".
Travis said: "Just because we've never observed a perfect vacuum 
or the lack of gravity, shouldn't affect the meanings of the words."

BTW, in Spanish the word for "vacuum" is "vacío", which also
happens to mean "empty". 

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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